Fame at last!

[adamsmithjr]

I have made it into that stalwart magazine, The Radio Times.

If you really want the
gory details, read on...

It is, I admit, an implausible piece of casting. I am ungainly, balding, bespectacled and rather shy. I make an unlikely television presenter. But I bluffed my way past the front door of a production company called Tiger Aspect, which makes

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[floralaetifica]

I am ungainly, balding, bespectacled and rather shy.

Odd. I wouldn't have attached any of those attributes to you

the vampiric drain on the goodwill of everyone we encounter

That is a *very* apt description. Well done. (Of course, apt descriptions are what you do.) I find it very hard to explain to people just how horrible film crews are - even though they are generally composed of very likeable people (being partly hired for being nice to work with), they nonetheless have a combined effect which is pure evil. When they are filming anything with non-fiction content this effect is multiplied by about 50.

Well survived.

[adamsmithjr]

Aha, but I was the presenter - so they were on my side. Fortunately we were able to survive without deliberately screwing people over, but I think you are quite right. Reality TV is anything but, thankfully for reality.

[floralaetifica]

Aha, but I was the presenter - so they were on my side.

Yeah, they *say* that...

[daisho]

For the sake of accuracy, I should point out that our economist-cum-presenter does wear spectacles a fair bit. :)

An RT entry is a nifty indicator that things are going well, old chap. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product!

[floralaetifica]

Nonetheless, I've never thought of him as bespectacled. Not all people who wear glasses feel like glasses wearers. To me, anyway.

[vardebedian]

Odd. I wouldn't have attached any of those attributes to you

By the standards of real people in the everyday, of course, they do not. I rather fear television makes anyone who isn't a trained actor blessed with supernatual beauty look a bit bumbling though.